Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	34% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	88.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 01:50
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.3% Very good	Memory 87.7 1-Core 110 2-Core 217 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 608 59% 484 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 1962) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1481 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 364.51 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	34% Below average	Lighting 43.7 Reflection 38.7 Parallax 34.3 36% 38.9 fps	MRender 37.6 Gravity 38 Splatting 37.6 31% 37.7 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 34% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 730 Series 240GB-$250 8,417 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 137GB free (System drive) Firmware: L2010420 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7648 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1062 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 106 (AF) Unknown 100 100 4321575557 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 67 554565665 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 106 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 172161 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 49 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 406 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 172161 (F2) Unknown 100 100 245403	88.2% Excellent	Read 492 Write 280 Mixed 342 82% 371 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 26.9 136% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 70 102% 191 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 95%
Intel 330 Series 120GB-$188 11,188 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 67GB free Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 138967962742351 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2653 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 355 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 187930 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 187930 (F2) Unknown 100 100 461710 (F9) Unknown 100 100 8061	47.9% Average	Read 503 Write 103 Mixed 158 55% 255 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 17.6 4K Mixed 13.2 68% 19.5 MB/s	DQ Read 31.6 DQ Write 32.3 DQ Mixed 25.4 21% 29.7 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 80%
Corsair Force 3 60GB 4,789 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 21GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3655074 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 74990129007273 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2642 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 276 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3655074 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3655074 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3655074 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 527 (EA) Unknown 0 0 483 (F1) Unknown 0 0 483 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2148	36.1% Below average	Read 196 Write 55.8 Mixed 97.6 25% 116 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 59.8 4K Mixed 10.1 80% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 29.5 DQ Write 61.9 DQ Mixed 19.4 22% 36.9 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 52%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 138 11866 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4321 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3894 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1014 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4264 (C2) HDA temperature 109 100 43 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	82.4% Excellent	Read 138 Write 150 Mixed 120 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 0.59 4K Mixed 0.28 74% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 112%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 386GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 249 222 7550 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7812 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19051 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2616 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 231 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7574 (C2) HDA temperature 106 98 44 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.9% Above average	Read 105 Write 82.2 Mixed 75.7 66% 87.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.41 103% 1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 76%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 240GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 141 3808 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6615 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2692 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 270 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6344 (C2) HDA temperature 99 87 44 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	55.4% Above average	Read 77.8 Write 115 Mixed 104 75% 99.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.34 86% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 69%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 640GB free, PID 1021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	14% Very poor	Read 23.5 Write 23.1 Mixed 23.1 30% 23.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1333 C9 2x8GB 3,379 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	51.6% Above average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 17.1 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 69.8 57% 69.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 55%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	694x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	195x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	81x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16